The Penn's Grove record., 1887-05-21
OF THE WEEK


Dangerous forest fires are reported
in Alger and Marquette counties in
the Michigan peninsula. Much dam
age has been done along the South
Shore Railroad in the Menomlnee lum-
Der district. Extensive forest fires are
reported in various portions of Massa-
chusetts. A fire was started on the
18th neal Collins Crossing, on Cape
Cod, had, at last accounts, burned over
several thousand acres and traversed a
distance of fifteen miles.
While four men were cleaning out
an old we'll at st. Sauveur, Quebec, on
the afternoon of the 18th, two of them
fell In. The others, trying to rescue
their companions, also fell into the
well. Joseph Gaspard, Joseph Buster
and Francis Buster persisted of suffo-
cation and drowning. The fourth man
was saved in an unconscious condl-
ton.
The 18th, was the third day of the
centennial celebration in Baltimore of
the Grand Lodge of FTeemasons of
Maryland, There was a parade of
5000 Masons, including visitors from
Philadelphia, Washington, Harrisburg
and other points When the procession
reached the Academy of Music, Mayor
Hodges made an address of welcome.
Past Grand Master John NJ. Carter
then delivered an grafton on the history
of the order in Maryland, and James
r. Brewer read an original poem.
Mrs. j. d. Pugh and her mother
were fatally poisoned on the 18th, at
Portage, Wisconsin, by eating head
cheese.
"A few nights ago seven men took
| James Trim FROM his home nea Tay-
lor, Texas. and gave him a hard whip
ping. A female school teacher had
whipped one of Trims boys, and he
wrote q note to the teacher telling her
that she did not know how to teach;
that she had whipped his child unmerci-
fully, and that If she were a man he
would whip her. Trim and his family
were sent out of the country, but they
will be brought back to identify the
outlaws. Trim and his wife identified six
| OF the seven men, and one of the mum.
Der has been arrested.
"A desperate fight took place on the
18th, among the silver n in the
mountains about sixteen miles from
| Hot Springs, Arkansas. j. A. Wilson,
a noted mint and proprietor, was
killed. Officers have gone there.
Slight earthquake shocks were felt
at Summerville and Charleston, in
South Carolina, on the evening of the
18th Similar shocks were felt at Eureka,
| Rohneryille and San Buenayentura, in
California.
"A passenger train On the Lehigh
Valley Railroad struck three men who
we're walking on the track near Free
mansburg, on the morning of the
18th, killing one and injuring an
| other, while the third man escaped
injury. The dead man has been lden-
tilted as Edward McGrath. of Kings
ton, New York,
On the evening of the 18th three
masked men broke into James Por-
ter's house, In Kent county, Della
ware, overpowered Porter and his
| wife, tied them to the bedposts, robbed
the premises of $500 in cash and
bonds, and carried off the plumber
with Porter's horse and wagon.
Albert Turner, one of the MUIR
derers of Jennie Bowman, in Louis
vile, has already been indicted, tried
under his confession of guilt, and
sentenced to be hanged on July LIST.
-Tornadoes swept over Blue
Springs and Papillian, Nebraska. on
the evening of the 18th. In Blue
| Springs the school-house was demOl-
ished and its janltor fatally injured.
Half an hour later a girl lying on a
lounge near a window was killed by
lightning. At Papillion several build.
ings were moved from their founds-
lions. A. ]. Potter, a hotel keeper,
was killed by lightning at Oreill.
Three distinct shocks of earth
quake were felt in Tucson. Arizona,
on the afternoon of the 18th. Tomb
stone was also shaken.
The boiler of the Richmond
Paper Manufacturing Company's mill
in Richmond, Virginia, burst on the
18th, killing two men.
"A passenger train collided with a
"wild" engine on the Mobile and Ohio
Railroad, near Waynesboro. Missis-
sippi, on the afternoon of the 18th.
Robert Shenault, fireman, was killed,
and William Tew, engineer, severely
injured.
B. NJ. Green, a confidence man."
has been arrested in Buffalo on the
charge of having swindled a lady in
Baltimore out of $50. When arrested
L. wuon ahArk- - Iaaxya for fNalffnrnto
with a young lady of Buffalo, whom he
had engaged as a g~overness. represent
ing himself to be a San Francisco MIL
lionaire. He had induced her to ad-
vance $3.50 to pay her expenses to San
Francisco, stating that when he ar
rived there the amount would be re-
funded to her.
Martin Prendergast and John
Donnelly were drowned in the 81.
Lawrence river, at Montreal, on the
18Th. BY the capsizing of a boat at
Milwaukee. on the 18th, August
Saelow and Ferdinand Bush were
drowned.
Policeman Julian Arnold was shot
dead, and Ernest i. Padgett, a compan-
ion. was wounded in Alexandria, Vir'
GINA, about / O'Clock on the morning
Of the 10Th, while trying to arrest two
men whom they overheard planning a
robbery. When they called on the men
to surrender both drew revolyers and
fired. The one who shot Arnold es-
capped, the other, who had a struggle
with Padgett, was captured, and lden.
titled as John Curran, of Washington.
He refused to tell the name of his ac-
complice.
William A. Sanford shot and
killed his ~16-year-old son Hamlet near
Washington, IndiaRa, On the evening
of the 18th. The youth was walking
in his sleep, and his father, mistaking
him for q burglar, fired.
John b. Fassett and wife, each
about go years of age, were burned 10
death in their mill at Mooretown, near
Waterbury, Vermont, on the evening
Of the 14th. The mill caught fire, and
the couple, who had rooms over the